Raw tomato mini snack tarts

I love sun dried tomatoes. Heck, I love almost all sun dried veg and fruits! The thing with sun dried tomatoes is that it seems to me they have the gift of adding wonderful layers of flavor to any dish they’re into. So I thought why not make them little cutties the main ingredient star? Why not make a sun dried tomato pate?

One thing led to another, tiny tomatoes started to float around in my head and now here you go, my tiny tarts filled with the most awesome sun dried tomato cream! They’re amazingly flavorsome, zesty, creamy and nutty. They’re so good as an appetizer or whenever you want to have a healthy snack. Or a light lunch like myself.

Just imagine picking one up and biting right into it. Can you taste the awesomeness of the tomatoes? Can you?

Raw tomato mini snack tarts

Author: TalesofaKitchen

Prep time: 30 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Serves: 6

Ingredients

1 cup sun dried tomatoes

3 dates

1.5 TBSP tahini

4 TBSP extra virgin olive oil (I used cold pressed)

4 TBSP lemon juice

Pinch of sea salt

Paprika, to taste

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2/3 cup almonds

1/4 cup sesame sesame seeds

1/4 cup macadamia nuts (or other nuts of choice or more almonds)

1/4 cup linseed (flax meal)

1 tsp garlic powder

2 TBSP extra virgin olive oil (I used cold pressed)

1 TBSP balsamic vinegar

1 TBSP chopped fresh basil (I used Thai basil)

pinch of sea salt

Instructions

Soak the sun dried tomatoes and dates in water for half an hour to an hour.

Add to a blender the nuts and seeds, garlic powder, 2 TBSP olive oil, balsamic vinegar, basil and pinch of sea salt. Process until it incorporates and becomes a slightly sticky mixture. Leave a bit of texture to it, but make sure it’s sticky.

Brush your tart shapes with a bit of olive oil then add about 2 TBSP of the base mix into each.

Press firmly with your hands to create the tart shapes.

Place in fridge.

Drain tomatoes and dates and add them to a blender with tahini, 4 TBSP olive oil, lemon juice, pinch sea salt and paprika. Process until smooth.

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I just made these and they’re yummy! I made the crust right after making some pesto (and didn’t wash the food processor) so it gave it some extra flavour. This is the first savoury raw tart I’ve tried and I’ll definitely be making more, thank you!

Mmmm a bit of pesto in it sounds like a good match! Great idea and initiative (not washing the processor I mean)
Thank you so much for taking time to come back here and write the feedback! So so happy you liked it!
X Chris

Oh.my.gracious!!! Did you hear a “BOOM” about 4 hrs ago? It was my head exploding from the ridiculous, delicious goodness of this tart.
I live in Colorado, so maybe it sounded merely like a “pop”. Either way, *Wow* boy howdy do I appreciate the creativity of this dish. This is the first raw recipe I’ve ever made. (Hopefully I’m not ruined :)) I tweaked it a bit as I find it difficult to follow rules (and only had sundried tomato tapinade) but it still came out lovely. Thank you, thank you! Can’t wait to try more!

Oh, Bess, I just love your funny, witty feedback! Cracked me up!!
So good to hear your first raw experience turned out such a success & that you experimented with the recipe. So what’s next now?
xo chris

Hmm. If the ‘dough’ was too crumbly I reckon just give it a few extra seconds in the blender and that should solve it. As a tart tin I used a spring form type which is quite useful as you can push the bottom out with no fuss. If you don’t have one, you can line a regular muffin tin with cling wrap and then press the ‘dough’ inside. Once it’s ready to be served, you can gently pull the cling wrap to take the mini tart out. Let me know if this is helpful.
x chris

Hi! I'm Chris. Dedicated smoothie lovin' human. I like to laugh, run, dream up names for my plants and take photos of everything. I'm wildly in love with real food and this blog is an extension of my passion. Thanks for stopping by!!